Cromer's schedule opened up a little with the postponement of the Broadway production of "Sweet Bird of Youth" starring Nicole Kidman, but he remains in development work on the Broadway-bound "Yank."

Cromer has said publicly that he is dying to direct a musical; his ties both to Chicago and American Theater Company are long-standing. "Rent" is being billed as a co-production with About Face Theatre.

In what artistic director PJ Paparelli is calling a possible pre-Broadway tryout, American Theater Company will stage the premiere of the new play "Disgraced" by Ayad Akhtar. The play, which was workshopped at The Vineyard in New York, is about a Muslim-American lawyer trying to climb...

After a salary-cap-purging wave of cuts the past week, eight remaining Dolphins find themselves on the bubble this offseason as the Dolphins' front office pushes to create more cap space with the goal of renovating the roster for a much-needed playoff push in what could be Joe Philbin's final...